I switched from Ubuntu a few days ago because I read that Clear is optimized for Intel hardware. I use it as my main OS.
The applications that I use most of the time are: Firefox, Bitwig, Burp Suite, Chromium, Terminal and Sublime Text. That’s 6, but I didn’t want to leave anyone out

Aside from the obvious (terminal) which I use more than anything else. [ just use standard gnome terminal with some git prompt and theme/font adjustments. I have installed tilix and many others and they are all great, but tbh I just grab the first terminal I can think of ctr+alt+t and forget I was gonna start trying new one. I’m also leaving out tons of CLI’s – Docker and git and vim (go to ide) included ]

Thank you very much for your interest. My scientific research is about structural transformations in matter (molecules) and its interaction with electromagnetic radiation. I obtain these properties from quantum mechanical calculations. If you are interested in my research, the link for my profile in Google scholar is https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=3McvzF8AAAAJ&hl=pt-BR .

Recently I got this fellowship to buy a couple of servers and I decided to test ClearLinux (CL) since it seems to be a modern system for servers and provides recent versions of the gnu compilers and algebra libraries.

It is working really great. At first, took me a while to get used to the bundles, but swupd is a powerful tool. Also, the documentation for CL is really well written and useful.

I hope that in the next semester this servers are already full loaded and in the first semester of 2021 I will publish some results obtained from them.

I am planning to install CL in my desktop too and make it my main development system, but I still need to organize my backups before I do this, and I will need to have some time to compile some programs that can not be installed via swupd yet.

In general, it seems that every detail in CL was well thought. Even the “$” color at the bash prompt changes to red if there was an error. The dev team is doing a great job. I am loving it. Also, the community in the forum is very friendly.

Edit: I am also very curious how the intel compilers and math libraries will perform in CL.

I run Clear Linux on an older HP Z820 workstation, which has dual Xeon processors. I used the desktop install, and don’t use remote management. The system is used exclusively for distributed computing of World Community Grid projects on the Boinc platform.

The workstation runs computations 24/7 on all 32 treads, hypertreading enabled. I’ve had to adjust the thermal management in the bios for the hotter/cooler weather, but using standard cooling hardware the thermals are very good.

I disabled the Clear Linux auto-update and I manually run the update every weekend so it doesn’t get too far behind.

I love Clear Linux in this application and I believe that I’m getting very good output from these older processors with very little customization to the OS.

I use google chrome to make sure all my browsing gets tracked so that when I get ads they are for things I actually want instead of being random and unhelpful. And so that I don’t have to fill out the form when I order pizza